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10.15.2015 VOLUME CXLIII NO. 7 16 pages

Candidates spar over issues at mayoral debate EMILY BIRNBAUM | STAFF WRITER

Town-gown relations, water rates and renewable energy took center stage at Monday’s Gambier’s mayoral debate, sponsored by the Center for the Study of American Democracy (CSAD).

Candidates Liz Forman ’73, Betsy Heer and Kachen Kimmell — all members of Village Council — took turns responding to round-robin ques3 CANDIDATES tions posed by Tom Karako, MAKE THEIR CASE CSAD director, and SamanAT KENYON tha Scoles, managing editor of Kenyon’s student The Mount Vernon News.

Democrat and About 70 people filled Republican groups Brandi Recital Hall almost served as co-hosts to capacity, but one could of the forum, which “count the number of Kenwas open to yon students [in the room] students and comon one hand,” Sam Whipple munity members. ’16, president of the Kenyon Democrats, said. The Kenyon Democrats and Kenyon Republicans co-sponsored the forum.

Heer, who runs the Gambier House Bed and Breakfast, sought to distinguish herself from her fellow candidates, whom she deemed more connected to the College.

“I am not a student, alumna, employee or employee status,” Heer said in her opening statement. “My loyalty is with the Village residents.”

Forman is a former College administrator who worked most recently for admissions, but maintains ties to The Kenyon Review Young Writers Program. Kimmell has lived in Gambier with her husband, Kyle Henderson ’80, who works in the College’s development office, since 2006 and has served on the Planning and Zoning Commission for nine page 5

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Hoping to achieve greater financial independence, the Gund Gallery plans to begin a membership program later this year.

Searching for firmer footing VICTORIA UNGVARSKY | STAFF WRITER

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s the prestige of the Gund Gallery increases, so too, its directors hope, will the amount of money f lowing into its endowment. As the gallery looks to the future, director Natalie Marsh and its board of trustees are seeking to expand its exhibitions and educational programs, as well as assert the independence of the gallery from the College, a goal it hopes to achieve through greater financial stability.

This fall, the gallery will instate a new membership program called “Friends of the Gund,” the latest step in the gallery’s increased efforts to generate its own income and extend its reach beyond the Hill.

“Part of what we will be seeking to do [with the membership program] is introduce some of the different kinds of teaching programs that we do [at the Gallery],” Marsh said, “as well as some of the artists and curators and scholars we work closely with, to members who will probably be alumni and parents and actually arts patrons who might not currently have a relationship to Kenyon College.” page 3

From ¥ to $, Kenyon gets pricey NATHANIEL SHAHAN FEATURES EDITOR

When Ricardo Pereira ’16 submitted his financial aid forms for the first time, the exchange rate between his home currency, the Brazilian real, was 2.6 to one U.S. dollar (USD). By the time he had to pay his tuition bill in the fall, the real had decreased in value, to a rate of approximately 3.5 per USD. Suddenly, Pereira was faced with a bigger bill than he had expected.

Kenyon requires that bills be paid and financial aid forms filled out in U.S. dollars, so international students must add up their parents’ income and other financial information and convert that number from their home currency to USD. World currencies fluctuate in value relative to each oth-

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Kenyon saw more sex offenses last year ALEX PIJANOWSKI NEWS EDITOR

real relative to the USD doesn’t mean Brazilians get paid more — it means people like Pereira must come up with the difference to pay their bills.

Julieanna Luo ’17, of Beijing, said page 2 her parents convert her

Kenyon reported the highest number of forcible sexual offenses among the Five Colleges of Ohio last year, according to the schools’ crime statistics released Oct. 1.

Colleges that receive federal funding are required to release an annual report on crimes committed on campus within the most recent full calendar year, per the Clery Act. Andrea Goldblum, civil rights and Title IX coordinator, thinks the special focus placed this

Bell-pealing has long been a Friday tradition

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Ricardo Pereira ’16 found that the Brazilian real, above, dropped in value before his family had to pay Kenyon tuition in U.S. dollars. er. Strong currencies like the USD or the euro hold value while weaker currencies are traded in increments that rise and fall depending on political and economic conditions.

A fall in the value of the Brazilian College hosts Pride Weekend over break

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school year on Title IX training will affect the number of reported sex-offense cases for 2015, as students become more aware of their options regarding reporting certain crimes.

“The more effort you put in up front, your numbers are actually going to go up in those areas,” Goldblum said. “That doesn’t mean that more is happening; it just means that people feel safer reporting. … I fully expect, or would not be surprised, if our numbers in the sex offenses go up next year.”

Kenyon’s annual on-campus crime report modifies page 4 Field hockey atop P.15 conference

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NEWS EDITORS: MAYA KAUFMAN and ALEX PIJANOWSKI

Kristen Russo of Everyone is Gay on how students can be sensitive to LGBT issues: College students can contribute by making sure that there are safe spaces and spaces for people to talk about these issues. There should be a safe space for queer people of color to be able to engage with each other, and then there should be ways to bridge

those conversations out. I think having events and engaging with communities outside of Kenyon, and figuring out a way to showcase your own stories and also showcasing the stories of others, is important. There’s always another outside.

PEACE CAR CRUISES THROUGH GAMBIER KRISTEN HUFFMAN | PHOTO EDITOR

Independent peace activist Sara Kirschenbaum visited Kenyon on Tuesday in her peace car, wrapped with 17,085 polka dots, representing each weapon in the world’s nuclear stockpile. In the 1980s, Kirschenbaum participated in the anti-nuclear movement in Ohio alongside Erin Salva, the College’s director of student accessibility and support services.

“A lot of time went by and I felt like no one was talking about nuclear weapons,” Kirschenbaum said.

“I think we are in as much danger as we were in … the ’80s, so I said, ‘I’m just going to do something about it.’”

The sentiment drove her to start the project “100 Letters for Peace.” On Dec. 31, 2014, Kirschenbaum committed to writing 100 letters to President Barack Obama encouraging nuclear disarmament; her polka dot car represents the 100th letter. Although Kirschenbaum was turned down by the president’s scheduling office, she is on her way to Washington, D.C. in hopes of finding a way to meet with him.

Village Record Sept. 30 – Oct. 13 Sept. 30, 11:54 p.m. — Report of male students in a confrontation at McBride Residence Hall, south entrance. Safety responded. Students directed to respective residences.

Oct. 1, 5 p.m. — Fire alarm activated in Taft Cottages. Caused by shower steam. No smoke. No fire. Alarm reset.

Oct. 1, 10:50 p.m. — Half-full bottle of wine found in a New Apartment. While conferring with students, Safety removed bottle.

Oct. 2, 4:44 a.m. — Fire alarm activated in Olin Library. No smoke. No fire. Alarm reset. Maintenance notified.

Oct. 2, 10:24 p.m. — Missing painting from Peirce Hall reported. Found in a Taft stairwell.

Safety responded. Painting returned to complainant.

Oct. 3, 8:50 a.m. — Student crashed bike at Weaver Cottage. Injuries to chin and palms. Chin required sutures. Transported to fire station. Transported via squad to Knox Community Hospital (KCH) for treatment.

Oct. 3, 11:32 p.m. — Unregistered party shut down at a North Campus Apartment (NCA).

Oct. 4, 12:11 a.m. — Intoxicated, underage student in Norton Residence Hall. Student unresponsive when checked. Safety responded. Transported to KCH for evaluation/treatment. Student received citation for underage consumption.

Oct. 4, 12:20 a.m. — Intoxicated, underage student in Norton. Safety responded.

Oct. 4, 1:24 a.m. — Intoxicated, underage student in Mather Residence Hall. Safety responded.

Student responsive and alert after vomiting.

Oct. 4, 1:38 a.m. — Intoxicated, underage student in Gund Residence Hall. Safety responded.

Student responsive and alert after vomiting.

Oct. 4, 1:45 a.m. — Intoxicated, underage student in Norton. Student unresponsive when checked. Safety responded. Transported to KCH for evaluation/treatment.

Oct. 4, 2:20 a.m. — Intoxicated student in Caples Residence Hall. Safety responded. Alert and responsive.

Oct. 4, 8:09 a.m. — Visitor stung by yellow jacket at Ransom Hall. Non-allergic. Safety responded. General first aid given. No other action needed.

Oct. 4, 9:36 p.m. — Admissions host not responding to phone calls or texts from prospective student at McBride. Prospective student gathered belongings and stayed where parent was lodging.

Oct. 5, midnight — Student reported graffiti on steps outside of Ascension Hall.

Oct. 7, 11:29 p.m. — Fire alarm sounded at Acland Apartment due to burnt food. Alarm panel blocked by bed frame. No smoke. No fire. Alarm reset.

Oct. 8, 1:05 a.m. — Student arrested for impaired driving by Knox County Sheriff’s Office (KCSO). Jailed.

Oct. 9, 1:00 a.m. — Student entered another student’s room in Gund thinking it was the restroom. Roommate guided student to the restroom.

Oct. 9, 8:11 a.m. — Student vehicle booted in Allen House lot after several tickets given for lack of registration. Student registered vehicle. Boot removed.

Oct. 9, 11:18 a.m. — Staff member reported tampering with computer and items on desk in Tomsich Hall. Wires disconnected.

Oct. 10, 9:45 a.m. — Fire alarm sounded due to burnt food in Brown Family Environmental Center (BFEC). No smoke. No fire. Alarm reset.

Oct. 10, 11:02 a.m. — Fire alarm sounded due to burnt food in an NCA. No smoke. No fire.

Alarm reset.

Oct. 10, 10:59 p.m. — Student-registered party shut down at the BFEC due to presence of alcohol. Gathering had been registered as a non-alcoholic party.

Oct. 11, 12:38 a.m. — Broken glass on sidewalk outside Leonard Residence Hall. Chairs turned over. Box of trash strewn.

Oct. 11, 3:39 a.m. — Blackboard ripped out in Leonard.

Oct. 11, 3:39 a.m. — Student reported unknown persons attempting to gain entry into room in Leonard. Upon arrival, Safety found door had been urinated on.

Oct. 11, 11:59 p.m. — Writing and drawings found on class board without authorization in Horvitz Hall. Under investigation.

Oct. 13, 11:34 a.m. — Contractor damaged downspout while backing vehicle onto Gund Commons patio. Maintenance notified.

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tuition payment from Chinese renminbi to USD up to a year in advance, in anticipation of changing exchange rates. Additionally, her government places limits on how much renminbi her family may exchange in a year.

Pereira said the act of conversion itself is a hassle, and a cost. In addition to his tuition and fees, his family must pay taxes on the money they move out of the country and the cost of wiring money from Brazil to the U.S. Director of Financial Aid Craig Daugherty said this is a problem that also affects some domestic students, but Kenyon does not make adjustments based on taxes.

The financial aid office was understanding of Pereira’s situation, he explained, and gave him a grace period on paying his tuition, as well as offering additional loan support to make up the difference. While this meant he was able to pay his bills, it ultimately meant he had to take on more debt.

Daugherty said this is not a common problem and that only a handful of students come to his office each year to discuss additional aid or grace periods on their tuition payments. He encourages international students to discuss the issue with their families, and recognizes that such a situation would mean an increased debt load. He could not recall an international student ever having to leave Kenyon due to fluctuation in exchange rates, and explained that students do not typically have to pay a large additional amount.

The financial aid package for an international student typically looks very similar to

that of a domestic student, with the exception of the loans that American students typically receive from the federal government, Daugherty explained.

“I certainly believe in minimizing loan debt,” Daugherty said. He encourages students to work with their families and do what they can to make up the difference. “Loans are kind of a last resort, but they are, certainly, a resort.”

Daugherty said he has not seen a rise in international students needing assistance due to this specific problem, but Campus Senate cochair Colin Cowperthwaite ’18 would like to help students facing this issue. Earlier this year, Cowperthwaite was approached by a student who was facing financial difficulties related to currency exchange.

“Tuition fluctuates throughout the year, there’s only one fixed tuition that you pay over the whole course of the year, and a lot can happen in eight months,” Cowperthwaite said.

Cowperthwaite recently held a meeting with the Office of Admissions to discuss the plight of students facing larger bills, and he plans to work in the future with Campus Senate and admissions on a possible solution.

With the increasing numbers of international students attending Kenyon, Pereira said he would like to see more attention paid to this problem. He believes solving the issue by making international students take on more loans to make up the difference is not a sustainable solution.

“In the short run, that’s good,” Pereira said of his own experience with loans. “But in the long run I’ll still have to pay it, and I don’t know how the exchange rate is going to look.’’

McKnight seeks execution REGAN HEWITT | STAFF WRITER

Gregory McKnight, who was convicted in 2002 for the murder of Kenyon student Emily Murray ’02, has asked U.S. District Court’s Southern District that he be executed.

Murray, a waitress at the Pirate’s Cove — later replaced by the Gambier Grill — was found dead in former Cove employee McKnight’s trailer 110 miles from Gambier in December 2000. The body of Gregory Julius, a close friend of McKnight’s, was also discovered on the property.

For the past 10 years, McKnight has appealed his convictions. But in a hearing held in August, he asked that his appeals be voided and made a plea for execution. In a letter to Magistrate Judge Michael Merz, McKnight accused federal lawyers of filing appeals without his approval. “They do not speak for me,” McKnight wrote in court documents. Though Merz accepted McKnight’s withdrawal of the appeals, he has yet to rule on the case.

McKnight’s lawyer, David Stebbins, wrote in a press release that pleas for executions are very rare.

He is currently waiting on the judge’s decision to see how to proceed in this case, but would not comment further on the matter, citing attorney-client privilege.

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“Friends of the Gund” will have a tier system that grants donors different benefits for different amounts donated, though Marsh declined to say what the tiers will be. David Horvitz ’74, chair of the board of trustees of the Gund Gallery, suggested there may be additional benefits for those who donate to “Friends of the Gund” at different levels. “We’re going to have visits sometimes to New York, visits to our artists’ studios and maybe some cocktail parties and do things in Columbus and try to provide an element of fun for the people that are going to pay whatever it is to be a friend of the Gund,” Horvitz said.

By establishing the program, the gallery is following in the steps of other college galleries and museums, such as at Oberlin and Bowdoin Colleges, in expanding outreach through collection of donations, and is on track to become a more self-sustaining entity.

While the gallery, like Kenyon itself, is a nonprofit, it is still dependent on the College for much of its funding.

In 2012, the Gund Gallery had a total revenue of $761,529, according to its 990 form, an Internal Revenue Service document that nonprofits are required to make public. (The 2013 form, which covers the 2012 fiscal year, was the most recent available.)

That year, more than 68 percent of the gallery’s funds came from the College, which donated $519,626 of the $761,529 in total revenue. The difference is made up through endowments and contributions and may soon be supplemented by the “Friends of the Gund”.

Marsh said the gallery always intended to find other sources of revenue.

“Our operating budget necessarily needs to grow in order for us to expand our service,” she said. Marsh also predicted that in the next 10 to 20 years, the amount the College gives to the gallery may decrease as the gallery accumulates its own endowment with donations from other sources.

Isabelle Brauer ’16, a student associate at the gallery, said expanded independent funding for the gallery could assist it in diversifying its collection, which would connect student curators like herself to new experiences in preparing artwork for presentation.

“A lot of our collection pieces have come from Graham Gund’s private collection,” Brauer said. “I think part of the role in becoming more financially independent is that the gallery will have more freedom to put on the shows that they want to do, and purchase collection pieces that they want to purchase.”

The gallery’s 2015-2018 strategic plan, available on the Kenyon website, states its hope of achieving a “Gund-controlled” endowment, or money that the gallery holds independently. It aims to boost this figure to $15 million by 2018, with a longterm goal of $40 million. The gal-

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Director of the Gund Gallery Natalie Marsh, left, gives a tour to board members.

2012 Gund Gallery revenue sources:

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In 2012, the Gund Gallery had a revenue of $761,529, with over 68 percent coming from the College budget. The gallery has a long-term goal of $40 million for its endowment, and hopes to raise $15 million by 2018, according to its strategic plan. It’s also looking to increase donors by 25 percent in the next three years. A separate board of trustees with fiduciary capabilities separates the gallery from the College. lery also intends to increase its donor numbers by 25 percent annually and increase the number of trustees from 17 to 20 by 2018. The 17 members include Marsh, President Sean Decatur and Brackett Denniston, chair of the Kenyon Board of Trustees, as ex-officios.

The gallery operates similarly to two other tax-exempt organizations belonging to the College: The Kenyon Review and the Philander Chase Corporation, which seeks to preserve the rural environment surrounding campus.

But each organization relies on the College differently, according to Vice President for Finance Todd Burson.

“The ultimate goal is just like all the other related organizations … they do become self-sustaining eventually,” Burson said. At this point in time, the Review is almost financially self-sufficient.

While the gallery’s reliance on the College is not unique among galleries and museums which have their homes on liberal arts campuses, the gallery differs from most in having its own board of trustees.

“One of its primary missions is to raise supplemental money so that the gallery can fulfill its mission and do what it thinks is the best for the College,” Horvitz said of the board.

Horvitz also said that the Board plays a crucial role in decision-making. “Everybody on our board was selected because they know something about art,” Horvitz said. “And truthfully, a lot of people, most of the people on the Kenyon College board, it’s not their interest. That’s another reason why we keep that separate.”

Oberlin and Bowdoin Colleges have only advisory boards, rather than boards of trustees, for their museums. Advisory boards, often comprised of alumni, faculty and others, provide insight to a museum’s director, but the director ultimately holds greater inf luence, while the College itself maintains financial control.

Andria Derstine, director of the Allen Memorial Art Museum (AMAM) at Oberlin, praised Oberlin’s advisory committee.

“A board ultimately has a fiduciary responsibility, whereas an advisory committee is simply that: They give advice to the director of the museum,” Derstine said. “It’s been very important to us to have that kind of advisory feedback from people involved in the art world.”

The AMAM receives considerable funds from Oberlin, according to Derstine, but also generates its own revenue from donors and a membership program. However, the financial control of the organization remains at the College level, rather than with the museum itself.

Having a board of trustees places fiduciary power in the hands of the gallery’s board members, rather than with the College, yet Marsh defended the system and the financial independence. “We weren’t really unique in Kenyon terms,” Marsh said. “We may seem a little unique compared to some other colleges. We’re separate structurally so we can best fund the operation, but the operation itself is completely embedded and integrated into the College.”

Horvitz believes in the mission of the gallery, but acknowledges there have been tensions between the gallery and the College in its time.

“There’s a balance that’s not there yet,” Horvitz said of the relationship.

“The Gund Gallery is as much a part of Kenyon College as the political science department is a part of Kenyon College; I don’t think Natalie would agree with that, but I think we’re still a little separate, like The Kenyon Review is separate. It’s got its advantages and its disadvantages.”

Although greater outreach to other funders may signal an eventual detachment from the College, Marsh said the gallery intends to remain a part of the College.

“We’re separate structurally so we can best fund the operation, but the operation itself is completely embedded and integrated into the College,” Marsh said. “Its mission is fundamentally to support the operations of the Gund Gallery, and the Gund Gallery is meant to support the education mission of Kenyon College.”

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the way it classifies sex crimes. Whereas in 2012 and 2013 sex offenses were categorized as “forcible” or “non-forcible,” they are now listed as reported cases of rape, fondling, incest, or statutory rape. Four cases of rape and nine cases of fondling, which qualify as forcible sex offenses, were reported, up from eight such offenses in 2013.

No counts of incest or statutory rape, which are considered non-forcible offenses, were reported. Kenyon was the only institution in the Five Colleges of Ohio to redefine its sex offenses in this way. Goldblum said this redefinition was mandated by federal regulations under the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) and Title IX. Last year, the College revised its Clery report and formed a special committee after initially failing to include some cases of sexual misconduct due to a miscommunication between the Offices of Student Affairs and Campus Safety.

“We’re committed to do this right, and be as fair as we can,” Bob Hooper, director of campus safety and a member of that committee, said.

For its data collection this year, Kenyon hired the firm Margolis Healy, which, according to its website, is “a professional services firm specializing in campus safety, security, and regu-

The number of reported sex offenses reported by Ohio5 colleges

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latory compliance for higher education and K-12.” Goldblum is familiar with the company, having previously worked as its manager of regulatory compliance.

“Many of their staff have long histories of working with Clery,” Goldblum said. “Their advice is incredibly helpful.”

Despite Margolis Healy’s involvement, the College alone has responsibility for ensuring that crimes are classified correctly. Goldblum said third

parties like Margolis Healy will not be involved in the process every year.

“To me, the best practice is every so many years you should have someone take a look at your numbers and see how you’re doing,” Goldblum said.

The College is likely to receive scrutiny over its sex-offense statistics, especially after an Oct. 2 Chronicle of Higher Education article revealed that roughly one in four college women are subjected to sexual misconduct, only one-third of whom report the wrong-

Chair named in Rutkoff’s honor BILL GARDNER STAFF WRITER

Peter Rutkoff will be celebrating his 45th year teaching at Kenyon, and with it, a new chair in the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (ODEI) is being dedicated in his name. When Rutkoff began teaching at Kenyon in 1971, the creation of such a chair — let alone an office devoted to diversity — seemed unlikely.

“When I first got here, the first class of women hadn’t even graduated,” Rutkoff said. “So it was still essentially a men’s college, with pretty much men faculty, teaching pretty much 19th-century curriculum in 19th-century ways.”

Since then, Rutkoff, who has no plans to retire in the near future, has overseen programs to improve diversity at the College and surrounding areas. One such project is the Kenyon Academic Partnership (KAP), which brings Kenyon courses to Ohio high school students from a variety of social and economic backgrounds.

Since Rutkoff began serving as KAP’s executive director, the program has grown from including six high schools to including 34 public, private and parochial schools across the state.

The Peter Rutkoff Chair of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion will be held by a faculty member who follows Rutkoff’s commitment to promoting diversity, inclusiveness and understanding American history from multiple viewpoints.

“I don’t want to teach the history of non-white folks as if there is a drawer that needs to be pulled in and out and now that we’ve done that, we don’t have to keep going,” Rutkoff

said. “I try to understand the larger social and cultural context of American diversity.”

According to President Sean Decatur, the new chair in the ODEI is funded through donations from alumni who wished to support the faculty while also specifically honoring Rutkoff, whom they cited as an influential figure from their times at Kenyon. Decatur said it is part of a larger campaign to help fund the College’s endowment.

“Having a faculty position supported through the endowment is important,” Decatur said. “This is funding for a faculty position now supported from the endowment instead of being supported from regular operating funds. It gives a mechanism for the College to honor faculty members … [and] the work faculty members are doing.”

Riley Selig-Addiss ’16, an American studies major and student ambassador for the department, said Rutkoff tries to create diverse classroom environments, especially by taking his students outside Gambier to other locations such as Pittsburgh and Charleston, S.C. Rutkoff, who inaugurated Kenyon’s American studies major in 2002, developed and teaches a course called The Sankofa Project, which centers on theories and practices of urban education and involves an extended class trip to a public high school in Cleveland. “When we’re in Cleveland, he’s always talking to students there trying to get them to apply to Kenyon,” Selig-Addiss said.

“It’s like a very low-income, minority school, so he’s trying to draw students from there.”

doing The College’s security report also grew from 12 to 51 pages, which Hooper said is a result of the College working to enhance the information it provides, and thus bring its security policies into compliance with VAWA and Title IX. Kenyon is not the only institution of its type expecting an increase in reported sexual assaults.

“I believe the probability of choosing to report is higher, and that we will see higher numbers for several years,” Marjorie Burton, Oberlin College’s director of safety and security, wrote in an email to the Collegian. “That’s a good thing, because … the support systems the College provides are being utilized when they are needed for the support of persons involved.”

Like Goldblum and Burton, Joe Kirk, associate director for security and protective services and director for Greek life at the College of Wooster, expects more reports next year, based in part on the number of Wooster’s ongoing investigations.

“We’ve worked as a department and an institution to get people comfortable with reporting,” Kirk said. Kirk also cited anonymous social media platforms like Yik Yak as a growing problem for identifying problematic behaviors and comments surrounding sex offenses.

Phi Kaps’ disaffiliation plans may fall through LAUREN ELLER NEWS ASSISTANT

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Rutkoff joined the faculty in 1971.

Karina Cruz, a senior American studies major, said another important aspect of Rutkoff’s teaching style is his understanding of his own privilege.

She takes no issue with the College honoring Rutkoff, who is white, with a chair devoted to diversity.

“I don’t think it’s a problem that he’s white, or in a position of more privilege, and also getting this honor,” Cruz said. “I think he’s always understood his position in a way that has helped many students of color throughout the years.”

Rutkoff said he will continue to incorporate diversity into his classroom discussions.

“It’s been very slow and incremental, but if you stay here long enough, the increments tend to add up,” Rutkoff said. “When I first came here, what little diversity there was, there was by accident, and now there’s much more.”

The brothers of the Theta chapter of Phi Kappa Sigma (Phi Kap) are still striving toward disaffiliation on their own terms, despite resistance from the College’s administration.

The Phi Kaps recently succeeded in passing an amendment to Greek Council’s constitution that outlined a set of procedures for national organizations seeking to go local and vice versa. However, this will have little influence on certain stages of disaffiliation they hope to achieve, as Greek Council does not control aspects such as division housing.

Prior to the passage of the Greek Council amendment, Laura Kane, director of student activities and Greek life, sent the fraternity an email outlining the implications going forward. Sean Smith ’16, president of the Phi Kaps, said the email emphasized the importance of the fraternity’s national character.

The email “said that the Kenyon administration was committed to honoring the charter of Phi Kappa Sigma, the national fraternity, as opposed to siding with the Theta chapter’s decision to disaffiliate and be a continuous local organization,” Smith said.

Smith said the email signified the Phi Kaps would be considered a new organization by the administration despite the Greek Coun-

cil amendment, and that “Greek Council does not have the authority to recognize organizations of altered affiliation,” Smith said.

Smith later met with Meredith Bonham ’92, vice president for student affairs, who was involved in the discussion prior to Kane’s email. She told Smith that nothing was definite yet.

“We are continuing to have conversations with the Phi Kap leadership … in an effort to support them as they move forward in their decision-making process,” Bonham said.

Bonham told Smith it was important that the chapter’s initiative have significant support from its alumni, so he has been working on answering questions from alumni over Facebook and is drafting a letter outlining the situation.

“They all have concerns,” Smith said. “I feel if we can jump on the communication game … and really make everyone feel valued and a part of the organization and that we’re not making this jump without listening to everyone first, that’ll really help.”

Ultimately, the Phi Kaps’ decision to disaffiliate or not will be a product of conversations with the administration and the responses of their alumni.

“I think as of right now, it’s safe to say we’re working with the men to take more time to figure out what decision is best for them,” Kane said.

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Monday’s Gambier mayoral debate sought to introduce the community to the three candidates and the issues they may face as mayor.

Liz Forman

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Kachen Kimmell

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Why are you running for mayor?

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What do you think is the most important issue the Village is facing?

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What do you think are the best and worst parts of the Master Plan as it relates to the Village?

I am running for mayor so that I can play a greater role than is possible as a Council member. I want to help ensure that Gambier is a dynamic, forwardthinking place to live, but also that Gambier never loses its core identity — its heart — either.

I am running for mayor because Kenyon has a number of building projects that will be brought forward in the next few years ... the Village needs someone with an objective view to guide us through these projects to make sure that the needs of the Village are included in the planning process.

I love Gambier, I am dedicated to serving others and I have the skills and experience to run the Village. It is a significant and interesting municipality, even though it’s small. I really, really like helping run the Village well for the benefit of all of its citizens.

The assurance of the essential services necessary for living in the Village, taking care of the Village’s infrastructure, and by this I mean, most emphatically, a clean water supply, efficient and proper disposal of communal waste, a safe and affordable means of power, well-managed streets and thoroughfares.

Quality of life. That really encompasses all the qualities that Kenyon brings to the table as well as the nitty-gritty of roads, water, wastewater, utilities and the rustic nature and beauty of Gambier.

The most important responsibility that the Village has is the water system. The Village provides the reliably clean water that comes out of every tap and treats all wastewater at the Village’s wastewater treatment facility before discharging clean water into the very clean Kokosing River.

I believe what is good for the Village is good for the College.

I do not think getting rid of the roadway that acts as a “cutthrough” is a good idea. Part of the idea behind this redesign was to provide additional dining and socializing spaces in the Village. I think that is a marvelous idea.

Making use of Bexley Hall is very important. It seems to be a woefully wasted space at this time. I’d have to say that the first-year quad changes are of great concern. The plans regarding Farr Hall and downtown are also worrisome. Where does this call for more commercial space come from? We are a small, rustic village.

The renovation of Middle Path will be good for the Village as a whole. The Master Plan proposal to increase retail businesses downtown is very ambitious and may be somewhat unrealistic. My biggest potential concern is the renovation of the freshman quad, if it would involve cutting down the large stand of tall evergreens.

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years.

When Karako posed a question about how candidates viewed the relationship between Kenyon and the Village, Kimmell and Heer took different positions.

“Kenyon tends to seek forgiveness rather than ask for permission when it comes to certain building things,” Heer said.

Kimmell disagreed. “I don’t view it as such an antagonistic relationship,” she said.

“Sometimes, the Village’s interests and the College’s are the same, and sometimes they’re

not.”

Heer emphasized her love of Gambier’s sleepy village atmosphere, adding, “I don’t have a big vision, I have to admit. I like Gambier pretty much the way it is.” She also expressed interest in looking into the economic viability of solar energy.

Forman sprinkled her responses with anecdotes about the Gambier community.

Although she poked fun at her own “romantic” or “wishy-washy” stories, she emphasized that the Village serves as an important governmental role model for Kenyon and Gambier residents alike.

“One of the things that Gambier ... can do is be a model for the huge number of people that pass through our Village,” Forman said.

“Seeing how the College and Village work together will be instrumental. … I think we’re a good model for all of those people that are going to go out in the world and make public policy.”

Kimmell said she wants to improve emergency services. She also recommended a more lively downtown that would include another business or a food truck.

Though audience members did not have a chance to participate in the forum by bring-

ing forth questions for the candidates, Alice Straus, coordinator of alumni admissions volunteers, said the candidates were able to express their positions clearly.

“I was pleasantly surprised that I found my opinions about the candidates changing as a result,” Straus said. “I thought that the format gave the candidates an adequate time to express their platforms, and also to differentiate themselves from each other.”

Election day is Tuesday, Nov. 3. The voting location nearest to campus is the Gambier Community Center, located at 115 Meadow Lane.

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Kenyon honors LGBTQ history in first Pride Weekend GRACE RICHARDS STAFF WRITER

Kenyon’s campus was largely deserted for Reading Days this past weekend, but it still showed several bright spots of color with rainbow flags displayed across campus.

The flags celebrated the College’s inaugural Pride Weekend, which brought both alumni and prospective students to the Hill.

“I was more excited about this than I was about the Supreme Court decision, which is pretty surprising,” Robert Bennett, professor emeritus of classics and former associate provost, said. In the 1980s, Bennett became the first to teach gay and lesbian studies courses at Kenyon.

Kenyon Historian Tom Stamp ’73 presented his research on GLBTQ faculty and students in Kenyon’s early years and Jonathan Adler, a professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, critiqued the legal reasoning of the landmark 2015 Supreme Court case Obergefell v. Hodges, which legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.

A panel including President Sean Decatur and the student co-managers of Unity House, Nathan Durham ’17 and Rachel Gorlin ’17, discussed the need for a more cohesive queer community at Kenyon.

“I think [Pride Weekend] is very

much in alignment with the principles of the Kenyon community,” Decatur said in an interview with the Collegian. “I think Kenyon ... aims to be an institution, a community that is welcoming and supportive to all students and I think that’s an essential message for us to get out there.”

At a humorous presentation hosted by Everyone Is Gay cofounder Kristin Russo, audience members asked for advice on coming out to parents, being out in a conservative state and politely declining plaid from overly supportive grandmothers.

The College also hosted many events for prospective students throughout the weekend, including a discussion at the Crozier Center for Women.

“When I was a prospective student myself … there weren’t the resources on Kenyon’s old website to look up what they were doing LGBT-wise and that’s really changing this year,” Alicia Wright ’16, one of the co-hosts of the discussion and co-manager of the Crozier Ceter for Women, said. “I think it really helps add a face and a personable connection for them.”

However, some critiqued the weekend’s lack of diversity. All the former faculty and alumni highlighted by Stamp in his history pre-

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President Sean Decatur, right, held a panel on where GLBTQIA life fits into the 2020 plan. From left to right, co-managers of Unity House Rachel Gorlin ’17 and Nathan Durham ’17, with Chris Kennerly, director of ODEI. sentation were white. There were also no transgender or non-binary presenters during Pride Weekend, according to Jillian Watts, assistant director of the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.

“I think, in general, finding representation of color at Kenyon College is something that we are working on to increase,” Watts said. “And that’s not just within our LGBTQ+ community, but within, a lot of other programming around the college.

That’s one of the challenges for being at a predominantly white institution.”

Gorlin also addressed the issue of Pride Weekend’s diversity. “If we’re going to talk about intersectionality and stuff, let’s get people who are not necessarily cisgender, white,” Gorlin said.

Others took issue with the decision to host Pride Weekend over October break, a time when fewer people tend to be on campus.

“A lot of people are gone, and I think it would be a lot more prideful if everybody was here,” Evie Kennedy ’17 said.

Despite criticism, many alumni, students, and prospective students were glad the College hosted Pride Weekend.

“I’m excited to see what they’ve done for us,” Gorlin said. “People have their complaints, and I sometimes agree with them, but how cool is it that our school is doing this?”

ON THE RECORD JONATHAN ADLER

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW PROFESSOR EMILY BIRNBAUM STAFF WRITER

Jonathan Adler, law professor and director of the Center for Business Law and Regulation at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, is the most cited environmental law expert under age 40, according to legal scholar Brian Leiter. He has written extensively about environmental and constitutional law, having published five books as well as pieces in dozens of publications including The Wall Street Journal and USA Today.

In your talk, you encouraged American citizens to question the logic of the Supreme Court’s decision to use the doctrine of due process to justify the Obergefell v.

Hodges decision. Can you explain why you think this decision, while just, is not doctrinally sound?

For whatever reason, Justice [Anthony] Kennedy’s opinion decided to rely more heavily on the notion of substantive due process than on other doctrinal rationales which would have made the decision fit more readily into existing precedent. For example, the court could have focused on doctrines that questioned government decisions to treat different classes of people differently. Had the court gone more in that direction, it would have been easier to see how this decision fits into the court’s case law relating to other instances where the government has made distinctions between citizens.

The substantive due process rationale that

the court used concluded that a liberty interest was violated by a state’s refusal to recognize a marriage between two people of the same sex.

That has a couple of problems in terms of existing doctrine. Liberty is traditionally understood as a freedom from government restraint, not entitlement to a government benefit or recognition.

You wrote two articles for The Washington Post about Kim Davis’s refusal to issue same-sex marriage licenses. Why do you feel strongly opposed to her actions?

If you are an elected official, and are sworn into office, and part of your obligation is to issue marriage licenses, you are not entitled to decide which marriages to recognize and which not to recognize. Even if one takes an expansive view of religious accommodation, what Kim Davis was asking for was not only not to have to issue licenses herself, but to prevent anyone in her office from issuing the licenses. It would be one thing for a state to say that a specific individual in a specific government agency could withdraw from performing a function, so long as someone else is ready and able to take their place, but it’s quite different to take the position that she did — that her office could deny service to people who, under the law, were entitled to receive certain benefits.

You have described yourself as politically right-of-center or libertarian. You also publicly express your support for same-sex marriage. How do you rectify your political leanings and your support for same-sex marriage?

I generally consider myself on the right side

of the political spectrum because I have a limited view of what government should do. Personally, I don’t like the government in the bedroom or in the boardroom, unless there’s some particularly compelling justification. The law is supposed to provide a framework through which people can organize their private affairs in accordance with their own goals. I don’t see much basis for the government picking and choosing among couples based on different conceptions of what the right way to live is.

In the talk, I spoke particularly about the issue of children because one of the arguments made on the right against same-sex marriage is that state recognition of marriage is primarily about reinforcing an institution that provides the best environment in which to raise children. The reality is, hundreds of thousands of children are being raised by gay parents. It’s hard to believe that it’s better for those children to be raised in single-parent households rather than two-parent households. Similarly, if there are gay couples that want to adopt and want to provide a stable environment for children they would adopt, it’s hard to argue that denying them the benefits of marriage enhances or protects the children’s interest.

At this point, who do you think you are going to vote for? Are you backing John Kasich for the election?

There are a handful of people who I’m pretty sure I will not vote for — I will not vote for Donald Trump or for Michael Huckabee, but I have not endorsed anybody. I have done some work for the Kasich administration, but I have

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not done anything for the campaign. I’ve got enough to do as an academic.

What do you make of the Republican Party’s position on same-sex marriage and, moving forward, do you think they have to change it to win and to stay relevant?

I think that, politically, the Supreme Court’s decision creates more breathing room for Republicans because it largely takes the issue off the table. The issue’s been resolved, and so it will make it less of an issue in the election than it would have been. That probably benefits Republican candidates. It removes a potentially dangerous issue.

This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

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FEATURES EDITORS: CLAIRE OXFORD and NATHANIEL SHAHAN

ASK A PROFESSOR Where was your favorite place to study in college?

“A carrel that was as cold as a meat locker.”

—Assistant Professor of English Piers Brown

“My apartment.”

—Assistant Professor of Economics PJ Glandon

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Students ring in the weekend Across a few generations, Pealers keep Kenyon’s campus tolling.

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TOP RIGHT: Head Pealer Carolyn Ten Eyck ’18 plays the bells on a Friday afternoon. LEFT: Pealers founder Robert Blythe ’82 is pictured in the belltower of the Church of the Holy Spirit.

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Every Friday afternoon, the Church of the Holy Spirit’s bells toll a medley of tunes, from the nostalgic “Kokosing Farewell” to the Harry Potter theme song “Hedwig’s Theme.” Students strolling down Middle Path — listening to the bells, happy to be done with classes — may not pause to consider who’s behind the bells: the student organization aptly named “The Pealers,” after the verb “to peal,” or ring bells.

“I’m very pleased that is a legacy that has carried on,” Robert Blythe ’82, the founder of the Pealers, said. “There’s so many towers that have bells, real cast bells, that are silent. No one wants to spend the money on maintaining the mechanism to play, so it’s so easy just to hang a couple of big loud speakers up in a tower and play the recording of something. You got the real thing.”

The Pealers, who carry on Blythe’s bell-ringing passion, have been a steady and welcoming presence on campus since they began in 1983. They perform on Fridays from 4 to 5 p.m. and at Kenyon ceremonies such as convocation, matriculation, honors’ day, baccalaureate and commencement.

The organization has changed a bit throughout the decades, most notably in a shift from playing Episcopal hymns to more secular songs from films and pop music, such as Carly Rae Jepsen’s hit “Call Me Maybe.”

Head Pealer Carolyn Ten Eyck ’18, a music major, began pealing last semester and said it’s an easy skill to pick up, especially if one has experience playing the piano.

Despite the fact that pealing is now part of Kenyon’s weekly routine and major collegiate ceremonies, the activity wasn’t always a tradition on the Hill. There is little to no documentation of pealers at Kenyon before 1978, and it appears the chimes had not been routinely played since the 1920s.

In 1978, Blythe arrived on campus and revamped the chapel’s chimes. “It really wasn’t clear to me when the last time the bells had been played seriously before me [was],” he said. “All the pieces were there [but] they had either broken or gotten undone or had fallen down.” He set to work fixing the chime’s infrastructure, and soon had the bells operating again.

Blythe’s passion for the clang of real bells comes from his childhood in Springfield, Ill. His father was a general con-

tractor and oversaw the construction of a chapel across the street from Blythe’s childhood home. His older brother and sister even helped hang the smallest bells in the tower, and he remembers that the sound of the bells emanating from the building fostered in him a love of pealing.

When Blythe arrived at Kenyon, one of the first things he did was ask if he could explore the bells in the chapel.

When he scaled the steep, winding staircase to the church’s upper levels he found the chimes in rough shape, as they had not been played routinely in decades. Blythe took it upon himself to spruce up the space and make some repairs, and soon he became the bell-ringer for the church’s services and later on for Kenyon events.

The chimes, as they are technically referred to, were hung on June 7, 1879, after major fundraising and community support allowed the Church of the Holy Spirit to purchase the 10 bells. Harkening back to a British tradition of pealing, the first song ever performed on the bells was “Cambridge,” an English hymn.

Today, the Pealers and their performances don’t garner complaints nor do the Westminster chime that issues automatically from the tower every quarter hour.

Yet back in the 1880s pealing was critiqued by a vehement, vocal minority. At the time, Gambier resident Peter Neff lived a mere 700 feet from the Church of the Holy Spirit in what is today’s Finn House, and hated the bells. He wrote a fiery pamphlet a year after the bells were installed entitled “Gambier’s Latest Scandal,” and later filed a lawsuit against the Village that resulted in the bells being silenced at night when the Neffs were at home. Some students may share a similar opposition to the bells, Ten Eyck said; the social media forum Yik Yak has showed a split opinion on the bells.

She paraphrased her impressions of Yik Yak’s thoughts, saying, “Half the time it’s like, ‘This is cool,’ and half the time it’s like, ‘This is so annoying; I hate it,’” she said.

Anyone can join the Pealers. This communal aspect of the organization is something a former pealer, Associate Professor of English Sarah Heidt ’97, sees as a welcoming quirk to this musical group.

“The fact that you don’t have to have any qualifications to do it has always struck me as uniquely Kenyon,” Heidt said. “It’s hard to imagine many campuses where a group of people is allowed to go up into a strange room in a tower of their chapel and make sounds that the entire campus can hear, no matter what their qualifications are.”

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UPCOMING EVENTS

A+E

OCT. 15 | 8 P.M. Play MOONCHILDREN

EDITORS: BAILEY BLAKER and ELANA SPIVACK

BOLTON THEATER

OCT. 15 | 8 P.M. Film Screening

OCT. 17 | 10:30 A.M. Speaker

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION THEATER

CHEEVER ROOM

GOLDEN GATE GIRLS

JILL BIALOSKY

OCT. 17 | 2 P.M. concert

SYMPHONIC WIND ENSEMBLE ROSSE HALL AUDITORIUM

Moonchildren illuminates 1960s collegiate experience Michael Weller’s dramatic comedy details the lives of a group of 20-somethings during the Vietnam War. ELANA SPIVACK ARTS EDITOR

Have you ever waited for a cat to give birth in a cardboard box on the f loor of your college apartment? Have you ever lashed out at your housemates because they ate f ive of the 48 hamburger patties you bought? Have you ever hated somebody you lived with?

Maybe you’ve never done any of these things, but students and former students alike will recognize the giddy ridiculousness of a bunch of 20-somethings living together in Moonchildren, a dramatic comedy by Michael Weller.

The show will offer much more than giddiness; delving into weightier topics, from dealing with cancer to f ighting in the Vietnam War. The Kenyon College Dance and Drama Club’s (KCDC) production of the show will premiere tonight at 8 p.m. in the Bolton Theater, and will run from Friday at 2 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. to Saturday at 8 p.m. over Family Weekend.

Moonchildren is set in 1960s-era America and fol-

lows eight college seniors who harbor different hopes for their future, but are all uncertain about what it will hold. Director Ben Viccellio ’98, who is also an assistant professor of drama, f irst read the play 18 years ago when he was a student at Kenyon and it stuck with him.

Viccellio said the play presents a rare opportunity for student actors in that they get to portray characters their same age. Though the play is set half a century ago, the characters’ concerns are still relevant. “I don’t think students in the ’60s are so different from students today that we need to somehow inhabit them with this idea that they are ... some ‘other’ that we need to recreate,” Viccellio said. “One of the many reasons I chose this play is even though it’s set in the ’60s it is absolutely timeless.”

Mark Ashin ’18 plays Dick, a quiet student who acts standoff ish toward his apartment mates. While Ashin said it was not challenging to play a college student, the task of wrapping his head around

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The cast and crew of Moonchildren enjoy a five-minute break before setting the stage to resume rehearsal. the severity of the Vietnam War proved diff icult. “We’re talking about writing essays for philosophy class and what we’re going to do after we graduate … but with this [looming] thing of a war occurring,” Ashin said.

Despite the grave subject matter, the show relies on banter and timing to create a wickedly sharp and humorous

narrative. Spencer Huffman ’17, who plays a disgruntled police off icer named Bream, ref lected on the challenge of pacing. “A challenge for the ensemble has been f inding a pace that’s good for the humor and that tells the story well and does justice to what’s written,” Huffman said. “It would be very easy to not do justice to what’s written. It’s a

diff icult comedy.”

Tickets are on sale this week between 1 and 5 p.m. at the Bolton Theater Box Office, which can be reached at 740427-5546. Kenyon student tickets are $2, general-admission tickets are $7.50, tickets for groups of 10 or more are $5 each and tickets for seniors, non-Kenyon students and children under 12 are $4.

Palestinian writer Amiry discusses life in the West Bank BAILEY BLAKER ARTS EDITOR

Political activist, architect and writer Suad Amiry discussed the plight many Palestinians are currently facing during her lecture in the Community Foundation Theater on Tuesday, Oct. 6.

The event was organized by Kenyon Students for Justice in Palestine (KSJP) as part of their efforts to increase student engagement on campus.

KSJP member Qossay Alsattari ’16 has been a fan of Amiry since watching “a TED Talk that really inspired me and a group of my friends when we were in junior year of high school,” Alsattari, who is from Palestine, said. “I’ve always wanted to meet Suad, and once I got to Kenyon, I wanted to bring her to campus.”

Alsattari met with fellow KSJP member Megan Carr ’18 over the summer to attend a reading by Amiry in the Washington, D.C. bookstore Busboys and Poets. “I had really good expectations that people would just instantly like her and instantly appreciate her and absolutely just see her as being purely human and good,” Carr said.

Before becoming an author, Amiry worked as an architect and founded Riwaq Center of Architectural Conservation in her home city of Ramallah, Palestine.

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Suad Amiry uses her life experiences as inspiration for her books including, Golda Slept Here.

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I think a lot of humanity’s problems comes from the fear of the other.”

Suad Amiry

Amiry began her writing career by happenstance. In 2002, during a 42-day Israeli occupation of Ramallah, Amiry found herself living with her then-92year-old mother-in-law. “For me she was also a symbol of the Palestinian people in being resilient,” Amiry said.

She affectionately described living with her mother-in-law as the “second occupation.” During this time, Amiry began to write humorous emails to her friends overseas about her experiences.

After one of those friends showed her work to a publisher, Amiry’s first book

Sharon and My Mother-in-Law, became an international hit. The book was translated into several languages including Italian, English and Hebrew.

The lecture Tuesday evening focused on her latest book, Golda Slept Here, which tells the story of several Palestinians who were evicted from their homes because of the recent upheaval of the city. “I think a lot of humanity’s problems comes from the fear of the other,” Amiry said.

Her work as a writer has allowed Amiry to travel the world and speak about her experiences as a Palestinian. “I always say I wrote a book that changed my life,” she said. The book in question, Nothing To Lose But Your Life, chronicles the 18hour journey Amiry made with a group of Palestinian workers from her home in Ramallah to a city near Jeruselem. Amiry made the journey to see the struggle men in her village experienced firsthand.

Dressed as a man, Amiry walked trails, dodged bullets and traded stories with the workers as they trekked to an Israeli city in search of jobs.

For Amiry, literature, music and film are essential to understanding other people. She uses her influence as an author to affect the conversation about the world of the Palestinain people. “When I hear music, or when I read a book,” she said, “I don’t think of religion, I don’t think of nationality, I don’t think of color.”

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Hailing from Russia, string group charms Rosse Hall

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On Sunday, the Chamber Orchestra Kremlin performed an eclectic program to the delight of a modestly sized crowd.

ERICA RABITO STAFF WRITER

Following a stressful week of cramming for midterms, Kenyon students were in desperate need of something to take their minds off of school work. Their respite came when, on Sunday, Oct. 11, an audience of around 65 students and community members gathered in Rosse Hall to listen to the Chamber Orchestra Kremlin work their magic.

Founded in Russia in 1991 by conductor and musical director Misha Rachlevsky, the Chamber Orchestra Kremlin is made up of 13 young men and women, most under the age of 30, and all extremely talented strings players.

Since gaining fame in Russia, the group has performed more than 1,800 concerts in Moscow and in 24 countries. After contacting Professor of Music Ted Buehrer, Gund Concert Series organizer, the orchestra chose Kenyon as one of its stops on a tour across the Midwest that included stops at Iowa State University and Wittenberg University.

“They’re a very respected group and gave a really fantastic performance — precise but also really rich playing,” Buehrer said. “It was a pretty easy decision to say, ‘Yeah, let’s invite them to come.’”

The group opened its performance with Adagio, K. 287 in E-f lat majorfrom “Divertimiento No. 15”

by Mozart. The slow, peaceful selection eased the audience into the concert, and left many members of the audience wide-eyed and uttering “wow” under their breath. A soloist performed brief ly while younger performers held their own and

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Chamber Orchestra Kremlin performed a program featuring pieces ranging from Mozart and Beethoven to more modern pieces. played well together.

Beethoven’s String Quartet in C Minor, Op. 18, No. 4 followed. Considerably more up-tempo and faster than the Mozart, the quartet inspired viewers to tap their feet and bob their heads.

Following intermission, the Chamber Orchestra Kremlin returned with modern pieces. “Suite in Ancient Style,” by Russian composer Alfred Schnittke, began slowly and gradually increased in speed as the piece progressed through its five sections. The fourth section of the piece was extremely quick and difficult to play and the violinists’ fingers f lew across their instruments.

“Night of the Transfigured Dead”

by contemporary German-American composer Tom Schnauber, the night’s clear outlier, followed and brought with it a much more sinister tone than was present in the other selections. The violins screeched out high notes that recalled horror movies, and the occasional deep bass added an ominous air.

“Four Tangos” by Argentine composer Ástor Piazzolla were the last songs on the program and their completion prompted a standing ovation.

After the conductor’s first bow, he asked for a member of the audience to join him on stage; the man called up on stage selected a performer to solo in the evening’s final song. Following the song’s completion, the

audience once again rose to their feet in a standing ovation. Chelsey Hamm, visiting instructor of music, said the audience’s reaction to the Chamber Orchestra Kremlin was unprecedented for a Kenyon performance.

“I’ve never seen a standing ovation at a Kenyon concert, and definitely not two,” Hamm said.

Overall, the Orchestra was extremely talented, polished and refined, and provided the audience with a night they will not soon forget. Following their final ovation, the audience left Rosse excitedly discussing what they had just witnessed, and eager to hear more of the Chamber Orchestra Kremlin.

Horn’s DJ workshops turn tables with student instructors ELANA SPIVACK ARTS EDITOR

Many Kenyon students have strutted into an Old Kenyon party and slid into a groove courtesy of the DJ at work, whose job is not as easy as you may think. DJing is more than lining up tracks for partygoers to dance to. The Horn Gallery is currently offering workshops to teach students how to DJ and mix their own masterpieces. Over the decades, DJing has spawned subgenres such as varieties of electronic dance music (EDM), dubstep, house music and more.

Co-manager of the Horn Sonia Prabhu ’16 came up with the idea when she and others at a Horn meeting mentioned how rarely the Horn’s sophisticated DJ equipment gets used.

Prabhu thought a DJ workshop would both be a good way to use the equipment while enriching students’ skills.

Nate Sloan ’16 and David Hanna ’18 are slated to teach the workshop.

Both have around five years of DJ experience under their belt. Aspiring DJs can download a variety of free sound-mixing software, from GarageBand to VirtualDJ, an MP3 mixing software that allows DJs to play

their music on the computer. Hanna began experimenting with these programs the summer before ninth grade while Sloan started during his senior year of high school. They currently DJ on-campus parties and Hanna occasionally gets booked at clubs in Cleveland.

Sloan and Hanna encourage students to experiment at the workshops, even if they have no experience. The two plan to teach the technical side of DJing and its equipment before exploring its compositional side. “I’d say the method that would be good to stick to [is] getting people to learn the science of DJing and then learning the art,” Hanna said. “Before people start really working with equipment, they’re learning what they’re aiming to be doing with that equipment, rather than blindly throwing them in.”

Sloan said he may project his tracks on VirtualDJ, and students on laptops can follow along. He and Hanna hope the workshop can culminate in a DJ recital and a fresh supply of DJs on campus.

Prabhu said one purpose of the workshop was to attract minorities, because the DJ industry is dominat-

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Rebecca Saltzman ’15 DJs at the Horn, which is now offering DJ workshops so more students can hone their crafts. ed by white males. The promotional email the Horn sent out welcomed all students, but particularly encouraged those, the email read, “from a demographic group typically marginalized in the dj community (you identify as female, femme, trans, non binary, LGBTQ, are a student of color, or have a disability), or don’t have access to dj

software and equipment.”

Prabhu, Hanna and Sloan all pointed out that the DJ industry about 20 years ago was largely influenced by gay men. Sloan cited an article from DJ publication Thump that described the origins of house music. “[The Warehouse] was the name of a gay club in Chicago where Frankie

Knuckles played disco music with a drum machine and created house music,” Sloan said.

These workshops offer another outlet for creativity on Kenyon’s campus, and even promotes a marketable skill, Prabhu said. “It’s empowering to create something that people are moved by and can decompress to.”

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Mayoral election to shape College On Monday, the Center for the Study of American Democracy hosted a debate between Gambier’s three mayoral candidates.

Fewer than a dozen students showed up.

Every election cycle the argument emerges that Kenyon students shouldn’t vote in a place where most are living for only four years. But the lack of student interest in this race is troublesome for a number of reasons.

The main point against students voting here in Knox County is one of economics: it reeks of elitism when disproportionately wealthy (and liberal) voters come in to approve tax increases and other measures that won’t apply to them for long, if at all.

But this race is different.

The mayoral race — and this is the only time current Kenyon students will be eligible to vote for the mayor of Gambier — has the potential to reshape the culture and aesthetics of Gambier and the College.

Before the College constructs a new building or significantly restructures infrastructure on campus, it needs to get approval from the Village’s planning and zoning committee.

So whoever’s at the helm of the Village has at least some sway over how Kenyon will look in the future.

The candidates — councilmembers Liz Forman, Betsy Heer and Kachen Kimmell — offer distinct perspectives on the relationship between the College and the Village.

While Kimmell rightly fought for a traffic study to gauge the impact of closing a section of Scott Lane to open a patio, Kimmell has shown less skepticism about the need for such a patio in the first place. Forman has come out against the patio and Heer said at the debate that she likes Gambier “pretty much the way it is.”

While a patio in the center of Middle Path may strike some as a welcome addition to downtown, we remain wary of the need for such a development. The master plan calls for many changes to the campus, most of which would appear to transform Kenyon into a higher-ed version of Disneyland.

At the debate, Kimmell characterized her approach to dealing with the College as less “antagonistic” than Heer’s.

But we should not be so quick to confuse antagonism with healthy skepticism, a critical part of any democracy.

That is why it is vital that students, whatever they support or oppose, get out and vote for Gambier’s next mayor. The future of the Village, and the College, depends on it.

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Big soda companies leave a bad taste EVE BROMBERG CONTRIBUTOR

When you walk into the Peirce servery and get a drink from the soda fountain, do you stop and think about how your college is able to serve name-brand beverages? No? I’ll tell you how: Kenyon, at this very moment, has contracts with two of the largest corporations in America: Coca-Cola and Pepsi.

This might not bother you. Peirce is our only dining hall and should accommodate students’ tastes, which is why we have these contracts, according to AVI Executive Sous Chef Meagan Stewart, who sat down to talk with me about them.

The contracts work like this: A certain amount of our tuition goes toward dining, and some of that money goes to purchasing products to serve, like soda. Stewart says orders are refilled weekly, which adds up to huge quantities of soda on campus.

To serve these drinks we must have contracts. The contracts provide Kenyon with a machine and guaranteed free machine repairs. In Peirce, there is one machine for Coke and its affiliated beverages, like Sprite. The other machine is for Pepsi, Dr. Pepper, Brisk and such. The monopolies these two companies have on brand-name drinks exemplify why I find it problematic

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that we are working with them.

The fact is Coke and Pepsi represent the height of corporate power. Though obesity is a problem in this country, because of their power the entities that are the catalyst of this epidemic (processed food companies, which includes soft-drink companies) can completely deny their involvement.

Soda companies consistently publish studies and put out statements denying the link between sugary beverages and obesity.

But in 2010, 57,636 cases of type 2 diabetes, or adult onset diabetes, were diagnosed in children nationwide, according to the 2014 documentary Fed Up. It is unsettling that we, Kenyon College, are in business (through AVI) with companies that incentivize power over human well-being.

We are working with companies that are complicit in young children having major medical problems. I am not saying Peirce isn’t health-conscious because they happen to serve unhealthy beverages — quite the opposite, and we should be very thankful for all that Peirce does.

Another reason I find these relationships problematic because that they make the presence of name brands seem normal. How, at an undergraduate institution where we as students are still forming our own moral compases, should we be forced to accept the wrath that is the American

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corporation? Perhaps this helps pop the Kenyon bubble, but I do not want soda in my cafeteria.

It is OK to like and drink soda. However, these contracts don’t represent Kenyon.

I do not think this school is attempting to create a community that unabashedly supports corporate power.

Eve Bromberg ’19 is undeclared from Brooklyn, N.Y. Contact her at bromberge@ kenyon.edu.

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College’s outreach requires integration, not imposition

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Kenyon’s aborted plan to remove a tobacco ad from the Buckeye building reflects a bigger disconnect with area.

TOBIAS BAUMANN CONTRIBUTOR

I often describe Kenyon as an island or an ivory tower; it’s as if someone picked up a chunk of affluent New England and dropped it smack dab in the middle of rural Ohio. The value of the Kenyon community is not always apparent to those outside of it who see a place with offensively affluent circumstances and radically different values. As a result, perceptions and attitudes related to Kenyon are frequently less than positive. Though past and recent efforts to foster community outreach are valuable and admirable, this goal should be pursued in a way that keeps these differences in attitude in mind.

A notable recent example of this divide came with the College’s acquisition of the Buckeye Candy and Tobacco building in downtown Mount Vernon. Both the location and uses of the building are significant — it provides a physical location for Kenyon’s community engagement office and for SPI Spot, a nonprofit science initiative

for children. Yet, the controversy surrounding the acquisition overshadowed the progress that it was intended to generate: after acquiring the building, our administration announced the decision to remove the Mail Pouch Tobacco ad from its exterior. The ad is decades old, and it is one of many painted to advertise Mail Pouch Tobacco.

Now, the buildings are often seen as historic landmarks — especially as their numbers dwindle — as many were barns or other wooden facilities that are now in disrepair or have been demolished entirely.

It’s in no small part thanks to the advertisement that the Buckeye Candy building is arguably the most iconic piece of the Mount Vernon cityscape. For visitors, it is one of the few things that makes this place stand out from hundreds of other small midwestern towns. However, Kenyon saw the sign simply as unsavory promotion of an unhealthy lifestyle. Though the administration eventually relented, the message was clear: total imposition of our values is more important than your community’s

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desire to preserve your traditions.

That’s why the continued presence of the Christian protesters on Middle Path fails to shock me in the same way it did many fellow students. While their rhetoric and beliefs are certainly ex-

The sprint to declare GRIFFIN BURROUGH OPINIONS EDITOR

Everyone touted college as the “land of opportunity and promise,” a place where students would have the option to study anything and find out what they truly want to do in life. Happy students led our campus tours, showing our prospective-student selves the countless opportunities and facilities available to us here, be it the various science labs, the promise of studying abroad or the Gothic elegance of Ascension Hall. Kenyon’s facilities and curricula are so varied that, after this tour, it seemed clear one would be stupid not to take full advantage of them.

But most people don’t have the opportunity to do so, because it seems everyone is declaring their major earlier and earlier. A Wall Street Journal article (“Today’s Anxious Freshmen Declare Majors Far Faster Than Their Elders,” March 19, 2015) cites an increase in students across the country declaring their major within their first year: “At Rollins College in Winter Park, Fla., 13 percent of first-year students were undeclared this year, down from 31 percent in 2006-07. At DePaul University in Chicago, the percentage fell to 16 percent from 31 percent during the past seven years. At the University of Denver, undeclared freshmen declined to six percent from 33 percent in 1995-96.” This trend troubles me as a student because at college we should sample different courses before settling on what we want to do in life.

At the off-campus study information session a few weeks ago, sophomore attendees were told to declare their majors if they hadn’t already done so. It alarmed me that after only eight college classes I was being told to decide what to do with the next three years of my education and, to an extent, the rest of my life.

Declaring one’s major is a daunting thing.

It requires a self-awareness that most people just don’t have after only one year of living

and studying independently. Some people know exactly what they want to do in life and are ready to get started. But most of us don’t.

That’s why we went to a liberal arts school—so we would be able to discover what we wanted to do and get a well-rounded, diverse education.

Some individuals want a more focused education than the total one that Kenyon offers. I have a friend who’s a physics major but loves French; because of distribution and major requirements, he’s had to take a break from studying the language. While this is disheartening, it is a necessary drawback of attending a liberal arts college. I feel the distribution requirements shouldn’t be something to groan at or simply check off; they encourage Kenyon students to get the complete education we all came here for.

I played violin for nine years and I hated it.

I had to fulfill my art requirement somehow, and there’s no way I would survive an art history class. So I decided to take up drums. Why drums? Because I loved the movie Whiplash and because I had a requirement to fill; that was all the motivation I needed. From the very first practice, I knew I had stumbled onto something great. Now, I practice every single day. I feel more relaxed after playing and I love it. Without the fine arts requirement, I probably would have stayed far away from music, but I’m glad that I had to get out of my comfort zone and try something new.

I’m not saying you shouldn’t declare your major early in your college career, if you know what you want to study. But don’t feel pressured to decide immediately. Kenyon has distribution requirements to help you find new things about yourself, and encourage you to broaden your horizons. I can guarantee you there’s something out there you haven’t tried that you will absolutely love.

Griffin Burrough is undeclared from Summit N.J. Contact him at burroughe@kenyon. edu.

treme, the underlying attitudes that drive their abrasive actions are felt, in some part at least, by a significant portion of the Knox County community: Kenyon students are strange and different and don’t belong here. To change this,

our community outreach needs to place significantly more emphasis on the community.

Tobias Baumann ’19 is undeclared from Mount Vernon, Ohio.

Contact him at baumannt@kenyon.edu.

Major course correction Growing student body presents problem for requirements.

HANNAH LEE LEIDY CONTRIBUTOR

For college kids, not getting into courses you need for your major is a very serious and scary business. As the number of students at Kenyon increases, they can expect it to become harder and harder to get into the classes they need to take.

A few weeks ago, I wrote an op-ed (“Not such a small world after all,” Sept.

24) discussing how the growing student body jeopardizes students’ hopes of taking the classes they want. It’s now time to look beyond students getting blocked from the classes they want and focus on the classes they need to fulfill requirements for their major.

Each major and minor demands a certain number of credits within different areas of study in the department to satisfy the requirements. How can we expect students to satisfy these requirements when they’re competing with a growing body of non-majors to get into the courses they need?

The short answer is we can’t. The limited spots in course registration are not only keeping classes exclusive — they’re making them unattainable to the students who need a specific course at a certain time. If they can’t get into that class, other classes they hope to take in the future are put at risk.

It’s true that many of Kenyon’s courses, especially the upper-level ones, give preference to majors and upperclassmen. But a decent number of students who need to take a certain class are potential majors who haven’t yet declared. They aren’t “majors” but still have a good idea of what they want. Yet as Kenyon’s student body

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Is it OK for me to lose that spot I really need in Introduction to Research Methods (a requirement for the psychology major) to a student simply looking to satisfy their quantitative reasoning requirement?”

grows, these students face an increasing chance of being blocked from the classes they need to satisfy requirements for their potential major.

I speak from experience: You can see in my bio below that I’m “undeclared,” but I’m also a potential English and psychology double major. First semester of freshman year, I planned out my course schedule for my entire four years at Kenyon as if I were a double major. When you have such a regimented plan, there’s little room for change and error. If you get blocked in course registration from a class you need to fulfill requirements at a certain time, your whole semester schedule and college plan need revision.

I love Kenyon for having small class sizes, but when it threatens my entire college plan, I question the system of course registration. Is it OK for me to lose that spot I really need in Introduction to Research Methods (a requirement for the psychology major) to a student simply looking to satisfy her quantitative reasoning requirement? I don’t want to sound selfish, but my degree is too important for me to be any more generous.

Hannah Lee Leidy ’18 is undeclared from Elizabeth City, N.C. Contact her at leidyh@kenyon.

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Dear Emily Hi Emily!

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My ex broke up with me about a month ago and completely shattered my heart. But I’ve decided — since we still have class together and are in several of the same clubs and I still like him as a human being — that I should try to be friends with him.

Every time I smile and say hello, he looks like he wants to cry or he’s mad he has to acknowledge my presence; he can’t vocally say “hello” back. But he acts like we’re still best friends, texting and sending me Snapchats. He goes out of his way to be in places he knows I’ll be. I’m confused by this hot and cold thing; he’s the one who broke up with me. Should I keep trying to be his friend when it makes me feel horrible?

Sincerely, Stumped by Snapchat Dear Stumped by Snapchat, First off, I’m sorry to hear about your breakup. I’m going through a relatively recent breakup too, so I feel your pain. Like driving in a car and yelling obscenities at passing drivers or anonymously trolling online, it’s a lot easier to hide behind the veil of technology than to acknowledge someone in person.

It sounds like your ex is confused. Most likely, he misses the friendship portion of your relationship, which is the hardest part to walk away from — the constant companionship, the person to whom you complain about Peirce’s “locally sourced” pizza bagels. So he’s trying to hit you up via text or Snap to get back the part he misses, the part of the relationship he didn’t want to lose.

But when it comes to actually talking in person, it’s too much.

And I get that. But if you don’t want to feel like crap when he throws you around, you need to walk away. No matter how hard it is to leave someone behind, you need to realize that he’s the one who left you. If he valued your friendship, he would have stayed; he would have tried to fix things. But he didn’t. And now you’re here. You didn’t have agency in the breakup, but you do now. Make the choice to cut crap out of your life, and if that means cutting out him attempting to be “friends” while avoiding you in person, so be it. You deserve a hell of a lot more than someone ghosting you in the servery, then texting you later that night about your lab assignment.

I’m a person who thinks you can’t be friends with your exes.

Not if you really loved them. Because no matter what you try to say or do, nothing will ever be the same, even if you were friends before. Everything has changed. So walk away. If all he adds to your life now is stress, it isn’t worth it. Someday you’ll just be eating a bagel in Wiggin Street and you’ll look up and someone else will be standing there, asking if they can use the outlet. And you know what? They damn well can. But your ex can’t.

Love, Emily Emily Sakamoto ’16 is an English major with a concentration in creative writing and a minor in messing with other people’s personal lives — whether they ask for advice or not — from North Oaks, Minn. Contact or send a query to her at sakamotoe@kenyon.edu.

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Sending sick students to class infects campus productivity QUINN RATHKAMP CONTRIBUTOR

I knew the sickness policy was an issue when one of my friends nicknamed a guy “hacker” because he kept coming to her class and seemed to be coughing up a lung each time. She didn’t want to get sick, and she was wondering why this guy continued to come to class when he was clearly not well. It must have been hard for him to comprehend anything the professor was saying, to say nothing of the disruption it caused.

It was surprising to come to Kenyon and read absence policies requiring students to have explicit permission from the health center whenever one felt too ill to attend class. In many cases, the sicknesses that keep students out of class do not require advice or medicine from professionals, but instead good rest, orange juice and some cough drops.

In the “real world,” we generally don’t go to the doctor if we have a bad cold or even a fever, and our employers generally don’t demand notes from medical professionals if we come down with a stomach bug and can’t go in to work for a day. Requiring students to go to the health center to get an excused absence when they feel sick is a waste of student time and, more importantly, an unnecessary drain on the time and resources of our health center staff and resources.

More shocking, however, is how rarely health center staff provide permission for students to be excused from class. Haven’t we all encountered classmates who feverishly hack away in the corner having left the health center with a packet of Sudafed but without

their name on the list of students allowed to stay in their dorms and get well? Encouraging students to attend class when they are sick is wrong.

Not only are unwell students actively contaminating the classroom and the people in it, but they are also prolonging their healing time by walking and talking when they really should be sleeping and sipping Emergen-C. Most students cannot operate at the same academic capaccity when their bodies are fighting sickness. Could it be that when these chronically ill students come to class, these factors result in a net decrease in campus productivity compared to if they were allowed to miss class once or twice and get well?

Shouldn’t Kenyon students, who have chosen to attend Kenyon independently and have invested financially in the Kenyon experience (at a rate of about $5,900 per course), be allowed to decide whether or not they are fit for class on their own? Shouldn’t they handle the situation by communicating directly with their professors? In the absence of a requirement for health center permission, shouldn’t faculty create attendance policies that encourage students to heal more quickly (and under less stress) and, most crucially, avoid infecting other students?

Oberlin College, Wesleyan University, Miami University and many other schools, both private and public, abide by guidelines that acknowledge student independence, encourage students to listen to and care for their bodies and appreciate greater efficiency in health centers.

Quinn Rathkamp ’18 is a history major from Bellingham, Wash. Contact her at rathkampq@kenyon. edu.

Selling the first-year experience STERLING NELSON CONTRIBUTOR

Look at any of the hundreds of college admissions pamphlets you got in the mail your junior and senior years of high school. You’ll likely see smiling faces, energetic professors, a disproportionate amount of racial diversity, picturesque Gothic buildings, dorm rooms that look way too nice, laughing friends and a general collegiate dream world.

This makes sense. Kenyon, like every other college you looked at, is trying to sell itself.

They want you. But this romanticized vision of college persists past the acceptance letters and high school graduations.

How many times did you hear that college would be the best four years of your life? Did you hear it during your high school graduation ceremony?

Or over the summer before your first year? Or during orientation? How many times were you told that you would love Kenyon? How many times were you promised intellectual conversation with your new friends while walking down Middle Path? Kenyon places itself on a pedestal with promises of intellectualism, deep and lasting friendships and a sense of belonging. But what happens when reality inevitably can’t live up to this hype?

Kenyon is not utopia. It is

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We tell first years that they’ll experience a sense of belonging right away. Yes, as upperclass students we should help first years feel excited about their new home, but not at the expense of being honest.

not, despite what a recent YouTube video for admitted students would lead you to believe, Camelot. It is not perfect. Upperclass Counselors, CAs, orientation staff, academic advisors and a host of other advisory groups sit atop their one, two, or three years of college experience proclaiming the “Kenyon dream,” while seemingly forgetting just how difficult the beginning of college can be.

Let me be clear: There are moments at Kenyon that hold true to the image that society espouses about higher education. You will have intellectual conversations, make important friendships and experience personal growth. Yet these moments could not necessarily occur immediately after arriving at Kenyon. These moments take time. But we don’t say that. We tell first years that they’ll experience a sense of belonging right away. We don’t tell first years that with the highs of college come very real lows.

Yes, as upperclass students we should help first years feel excited about their new home,

but not at the expense of being honest. Instead of normalizing feelings of stress and anxiety by acknowledging they exist, we hide them under proclamations of perfection and collegiate utopia.

During my first year at Kenyon, I found myself wondering if something was wrong with me when I didn’t experience the idealistic image of Kenyon that was painted for me during orientation. In my three years as a first-year CA, I’ve seen this pattern repeated again and again in subsequent first-year classes.

It’s time Kenyon stop perpetuating the image of a perfect college experience and start acknowledging that college is hard. It’s time to stop telling students that their undergraduate years are the best four years of their lives. College can be great. It can be a time of incredible growth, but it is also a time of uncertainty and anxiety. Let’s talk about it.

Sterling Nelson ’16 is a political science major from Golden Valley, Minn. Contact him at nelsons@kenyon.edu

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For new hairdos, students head to Vine Street Barber

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DEVON MUSGRAVE-JOHNSON STAFF WRITER

Five years ago, Vine Street Barber Shop in Mount Vernon had very little connection to Kenyon. Now, it’s a popular place for Kenyon students to get their hair cut and share stories and local gossip.

The shop, owned and run by Mount Vernon resident Colin Pack, gives off a game room vibe upon entering. A TV sits in the corner, displaying whatever sporting event happens to be on at the time, and chairs line the wall opposite the barber stations. Barber Steve Niday, also of Mount Vernon, who helps run the shop, describes it as a place where people can go to talk about sports and unwind while getting their hair cut.

“It’s a job where you get to be social,” Niday said. “It’s kind of like a lockerroom environment here, and I feel like everyone just sort of has fun in a barber shop.”

Though the barber shop has existed for around a decade, Pack bought the location nine years ago and hired his high school friend Niday two years later.

According to Niday, the pair spent much of their time in high school cutting classmates’ hair.

“We had always done haircuts at home or in a basement or a family room and so we always had that outside influence of, ‘Hey, why don’t you become a barber?’” Niday said. “Everything just kind of unfolded to where we could finally take that leap and go check out the barber school, and that really cemented it for us.” The pair started by giving haircuts to friends and family and eventually word spread.

For Kenyon students, Vine Street began to play a larger role in the community once athletes and drama students

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Barber Steve Niday cuts Teddy Farkas’s ’16 hair at Vine Street Barber Shop in Mount Vernon on Tuesday.

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It’s a job where you get to be social. It’s kind of like a locker-room environment here, and I feel like everyone just sort of has fun in a barber shop.”

Steve Niday, Vine Street barber

began frequenting the shop, unable to wait for a school break to get their hair trimmed for school spirit or for shows.

Before shows, drama students would come in with a very specific haircut that they would need for their role, and those same students would come back the next week once the show was over to restore their hair to their everyday look.

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The power of word of mouth then brought more students to the shop. The shop posts events and information on its Facebook page, but Kenyon students are largely responsible for providing more customers from the College. “We get a lot of regular customers here,” Niday said. “Seniors leave every year, but somehow word gets out to freshmen and we get new freshmen customers ev-

ery single year. It’s really cool how the word spreads.”

One first-year student, Matt Mandel, heard about the shop via word of mouth. Mandel said he was struggling to find a good place to get his hair cut when he heard about Vine Street through his Upperclass Counselor.

“He asked me where I’m from and gave me advice about being at Kenyon,” Mandel said of Niday. “He seemed like a really nice guy and he also gave me a good haircut.”

Vine Street Barber Shop is located at 10 West Vine St. in Mount Vernon, and is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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After first loss, men’s soccer tops two conference rivals PETER DOLA STAFF WRITER

The Lords’ season-long unbeaten streak ended on Oct. 3 against conference foe DePauw University, who defeated the thentop-ranked Lords in 1-0 in overtime. The Lords have since regained their winning ways, defeating the College of Wooster 6-1 and Oberlin College 1-0.

The match against DePauw was physical, going back and forth from the beginning, with both teams finding opportunities to shoot in the first half. In the first two minutes of the game, Henry Myers ’18 headed the ball to the net for a narrow miss. Eight minutes later, goalie Sam Clougher ’17 was forced to save a shot from DePauw’s E.J. Moore.

During the second half, the tide seemed to turn in favor of the Lords, who despite having many chances to score, could not capitalize on their opportunities. Dalton Eudy ’17, Jordan Glassman ’17 and Brice Koval ’19 all saw their shots get saved by the DePauw keeper or sail away from the goal.

However, the defense stepped up, allowing DePauw only one shot on goal and helping force overtime.

In the waning moments of the first overtime, DePauw player Zach Hoffman found the back of the net off a throw-in cross that dropped right in front of him.

After the tough loss, the Lords rebounded against the College of Wooster, earning a 6-1 win and improving their record to 9-1. Despite the big win, the match did not start well for the Lords. After a scoreless first half, Wooster found the net first in the 48th minute of the game. This sparked a fire in the Lords, who scored in the 59th minute to tie the game, and followed that with five more goals. Five different players scored the Lords’ six goals.

“I think we are working very well when we attack,” Alberto Carmona ’19, who scored his third goal of the season against Wooster, said. “When we move the ball fast is when we are most effective. We have a lot of quality in the middle and we have to take advantage of that.”

The Lords added another win to their record on Wednesday, beating Oberlin College 1-0 at home. In the first half, it was an evenly matched game despite a plethora of great opportunities for the Lords, who were kept out of the net by a number of great saves from Oberlin goalkeeper Koryn Kraemer.

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Henry Myers ’ 18 dribbles past Wooster players during the Lords’ 6-1 victory on Saturday.

Kenyon finally broke through in the second half with a goal from forward Tony Amolo ’17, who received a through ball from Woo Jeon ’18 and, with only the keeper to beat, slotted the ball into the corner of the net.

The Lords have scored at least two goals in all but two of their games, with Amolo’s

11 goals leading Kenyon’s offense.

With a dent in their once-perfect record, the Lords dropped eight spots in the national rankings and are now the ninth-ranked team among Division-III schools in the nation. Kenyon looks to improve its record next Saturday at Denison University.

Lords drop tight game to Battling Bishops in overtime Kenyon carried an early lead to the end of the fourth quarter before OWU tied the game at 20.

NOAH GURZENSKI STAFF WRITER

With three of their four cocaptains sidelined due to injury, Lords football (2-4, 2-3 NCAC) took Ohio Wesleyan University (2-3, 2-2) to double overtime last Saturday, but ultimately fell to the Battling Bishops by a score of 23-20.

Putting the loss behind him, Head Coach Chris Monfiletto hopes the experience the players gained in such a tight ballgame will lend itself to the program’s future success. “Sometimes you have got to be in a tough game, a close game, in order to learn how to win those games,” Monfiletto said. “You can’t simulate that in offseason workouts. You can’t simulate that in practice.

That’s something that you have to have experience doing.”

With neither team finding the endzone on their first few drives of the game, Kenyon worked its way deep into OWU territory at the end of the first quarter to break the scoreless tie. Facing a first-and-goal from the OWU two-yard line, co-captain Jake Bates ’16 ran a play-action fake and tossed the ball to Greg McIntosh ’16 in the back of the endzone for the touchdown and the game’s first lead.

After returning the ensuing

kickoff to their own 30-yard line, OWU tied the game up on the next play. Catching a pass while running a hitch route, OWU wide receiver Ian Williams eluded a Kenyon defender, turned and dashed 70 yards down the right sideline for the score.

On their next offensive possession, the Lords drove deep into OWU territory, putting themselves in a good position to regain the lead. Facing a fourth-and-seven from the OWU 16-yard line, Szabi Simo ’17 converted a 33-yard fieldgoal attempt to make the score 10-7.

Later in the second quarter, the Lords found themselves in great field position after an OWU punt returner muffed a Kenyon punt and John O’Brien ’17 pounced on the loose ball at the OWU 33-yard line. Calling on Simo’s kicking services once again, the Lords extended their lead to 13-7 with a 24-yard field goal.

Two possessions later, OWU had a golden opportunity to take the lead after they recovered a Kenyon fumble on the Lords’ 21-yard line. However, Kenyon’s defense forced the Battling Bishops to go threeand-out and OWU kicker Tim Shadoan kicked a 37-yard field goal to make the score 13-10.

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Running back Rob Meagher ’19 carries the ball against Ohio Wesleyan University.

On OWU’s next drive, Shadoan knocked in another field goal, this one from 27 yards out, to tie the game at 13 before halftime.

The game remained tied until the 13:51 mark in the fourth quarter, when Rob Meagher ’19 barrelled through the OWU defensive line for a two-yard rushing touchdown to make the score 20-13, in favor of Kenyon.

Meagher, who ran for 153 yards and logged his first collegiate touchdown in the loss, started as running back in place of injured co-captain Blake Calcei

’16.

Kenyon’s defense, which had dominated the OWU offense for the overwhelming majority of the game, conceded a 64-yard pass with less than eight minutes remaining in the fourth quarter, giving the Battling Bishops a first-and-goal from the Kenyon one-yard line.

OWU ran the ball into the endzone on the next play to tie the game at 20. With neither team able to score again in regulation, the Lords went to overtime for the first time since 2009, when they lost to the University

of Chicago by a score of 37-36.

After neither team scored in the first overtime, Kenyon had the ball first to start the second overtime. The Lords were able to work their way all the way down to the one-yard line, but OWU’s defense forced and recovered a Kenyon fumble to take back the ball. On the ensuing possession, Shadoan kicked a 43-yard field goal to end the game.

The Lords will travel to Crawfordsville, Ind. Saturday to take on nationally 10th-ranked Wabash College at 1 p.m.

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Field hockey extends perfect conference record JESS KUSHER SPORTS ASSISTANT

Field hockey tallied two wins last weekend, bringing its North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) season record to 8-0 and its overall record to 11-1. The team notched 6-0 scores against both Wooster College (2-11, 1-7 NCAC) and Oberlin College (111, 0-8) in a pair of away games on Saturday and Sunday.

On Saturday at Wooster, Katelyn Hutchinson ’18 led the team with two goals, while teammates Maddie Breschi ’16, Julia Richards ’17 and Weezie Foster ’18 added a goal apiece. Sunday brought an identical f inal score in the Ladies’ win against Oberlin. Breschi scored two goals, Foster one, and Sam Grunder ’19 and Minke Verweij ’19 also added one each.

“I’m proud of the effort our team put forth,” Head Coach Jacqueline DeMarco wrote in an email. DeMarco said she was proud to see her athletes supporting one another and attributed the Ladies’ success to the whole team.

Over the two games last weekend six players took 21 shots on goal.

“You don’t really see this many different goal-scorers in a lot of other teams, so I think that makes us a special team,” Breschi said. “Especially in the offensive realm — just having the ability to have a multitude of

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It was amazing. We were playing 5-0, and a bunch of girls got on from the bench and they were on fire the second they hit the field.”

Shannon Hart ’18

players score and contribute.”

Sunday’s game against Oberlin brought contributions from two f irst years, as Verweij scored her third goal on the season and Grunder her f irst.

“It was amazing” Shannon Hart ’18 said remembering Grunder’s goal against Oberlin. “We were playing 5-0, and a bunch of girls got on from the bench and they were on f ire the second they hit the f ield.” She said Kenyon dominated possession of the ball as they crossed the f ield to score.

“It was beautiful, just a good moment.”

“It’s a great time to be a Kenyon Lady,” DeMarco wrote, ref lecting on the team’s younger players and their growth as student-athletes this season.

“We’re def initely gonna have a target on our back,” Breschi, who currently leads the team with 11 goals,

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Christine Bloom ’16 has one goal and one assist so far this season. said. “I think we just have to recognize that every team is going to bring it, and we have to keep playing our best and playing hard against every opponent.”

Hart wants the team to focus. “I think it’s very easy to get comfortable in a winning streak, but we need to

Ladies down Wooster, Hiram RISHI CHOUBEY STAFF WRITER

Since their narrow 1-0 home loss to conference rival DePauw University on Oct. 3, a game in which they nonetheless outshot the Tigers 199, Ladies soccer has secured two straight 2-0 conference wins, against the College of Wooster and Hiram College.

Led by North Coast Atlantic Conference (NCAC) player of the week Gillian Blackwell ’18, who had a goal and an assist against Wooster (9-4-1) and two goals against Hiram (4-10), the Ladies (9-5) now stand tied for second place in the NCAC with four games left in the regular season.

In a hotly contested match that resulted in a combined 16 fouls, Blackwell headed an assist to Emma Klug ’18, who tapped a shot into the upper-right corner 10 minutes into the f irst half at Wooster.

Blackwell then added an unassisted goal from the top of the box.

“It was a very physical game,” Head Coach Kelly Bryan said. “That’s typically how Wooster likes to play.

There is always an adjustment period to the contact. It helps us keep our game sharp.”

At Hiram, Blackwell scored two goals, unassisted, in two

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not feel big-headed or comfortable,” Hart said. “We need to know what we want, and if we want to make it to the championship we’re going to have to f ight the whole way to get there.”

The Ladies play Ohio Wesleyan University today at 4:30 p.m. on McBride Field.

Volleyball breaks four-game loss streak ESTEBAN BACHELET SPORTS EDITOR

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Maia Emden ’19 dribbles the ball upfield against DePauw University. minutes, with the f irst coming on a breakaway 20 minutes into the f irst half.

Led by staggering defense and solid goalkeeping, the Ladies notched two straight shutouts, their sixth and seventh of the year. Alyssa Poolpol ’16 lowered her goalsagainst average (GAA) to 0.64, third among goalkeepers in the NCAC. Blackwell moved into a tie for third in the NCAC with six goals, and

forward Maggie Smith ’17 is currently second with seven.

Up next for the Ladies is their Senior Day game against f irst-place Denison University (12-1) Saturday on McBride Field at 1 p.m.

“Families might make a special effort to come down,” Assistant Coach Becca Romaine ’15 said. “It’s a great experience, and I’m looking forward for them to have that day.”

Before last weekend, volleyball was 6-9 overall after losing four consecutive matches to North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) opponents. However, they showed last week that two matches against weaker competition can make the difference and ignite a squad. The Ladies dominated in every category Saturday at the Kenyon Invitational, defeating Waynesburg University (Waynesburg, Pa., 3-19) and Manchester University (North Manchester, Ind., 7-12) in straight sets to improve their record to 8-9 (0-4 NCAC).

With the wins, the Ladies got their spunk back. “It was our mental game that needed the most focus,” Schuyler Stupica ’19, who had 18 kills over the two matches and only two errors, said of the four-game losing streak. “We went into lulls and couldn’t keep the same level of intensity.”

While the Ladies faced weaker opposition at the invitational than during their losing streak, it was important for them to get some confidence being that the team is relatively young and inconsistent. The Ladies beat the Waynesburg Yellow Jackets by scores of 25-16, 25-10 and 25-14,

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It was our mental game that needed the most focus. We went into lulls and couldn’t keep the same level of intensity.”

Schuyler Stupica ’19

with Stupica and Tierney McClure ’18 each picking up 10 kills and Jensen Shurbert ’18 dishing out 37 assists. Against Manchester, the Ladies faced tougher competition, but were still able to win comfortably, by scores of 25-19, 25-16, and 25-17. Delaney Swanson ’19 picked up her 10th double-double of the season with 10 kills and 12 digs.

The expectations for the Ladies this season have changed.

“We came into the season knowing that as a team, we have a lot of talent and we have the ability to win,” Lauren Kerr ’18, who had 10 kills and eight blocks over the two matches, said. The Ladies believe they are better than their 8-9 record shows, and are hungry for a return to NCAC competition. They face Muskingum University (New Concord, Ohio) on Oct. 16 in Tomsich Arena.

SPORTS The Collegian

Thursday, Oct. 15, 2015

KRISTEN HUFFMAN | COLLEGIAN

Two years ago, Kenyon spent a total of $3,777,863 on athletics, with $2,623,338 of that sum spent on specific teams. The remaining $1,154,525 was spent on additional expenses, such as upkeep of the KAC.

How Kenyon spends its $3.8-million athletic budget teams than Kenyon does. Whereas OWU spent more on specific teams, Kenyon spent more money total on With the price of college tuition athletics than OWU did in 2013-14. at an all-time high, students often This difference can mostly be atlook for ways to criticize their coltributed to the maintenance of the KENYON DENISON OBERLIN OHIO WESLEYAN lege or university for spending its KAC, an expensive asset. money inefficiently or incorrectly.

Oberlin spent significantly less With that in mind, we took a look money on athletics than Kenyon at how Kenyon manages its athletic did two years ago. Though Oberlin budget. actually had nearly 1,200 more stuD III OHIO A comparison of how Kenyon dents than Kenyon, it spent about athletics manages and distributes $1,700,000 less on athletics. Oberlin COLLEGES its budget and how similar Divispent about $267,476 on its football FOOTBALL sion-III schools, such as Denison team, about 21.6 percent of its total $343,102 $362,999 $267,476 $573,139 University, Ohio Wesleyan Univerteam expenses.

EXPENSE TOTAL sity (OWU) and Oberlin College, Kenyon also spent more than do so reveals that Kenyon athletics Oberlin did on its basketball teams. does a strong job of balancing its Kenyon spent a total of $330,959 MEN’S BASKET$174,392 $189,289 $103,591 $158,860 budget between its many athletic on its two basketball teams, while BALL EXPENSE teams.

Oberlin spent a total of $188,774. A TOTAL The data come from the colleges’ smaller cost may be expected with a 2013-14 U.S. Department of Educasmaller total budget, though OberWOMEN’S BAStion (UDE) reports. The UDE relin only had six fewer basketball $156,564 $193,221 $90,438 $149,691 KETBALL EXPENSE port shows how much a college or players than Kenyon. university spent on athletics and Denison spent significantly TOTAL athletic teams in a given year, and more on athletics total than Kencontains information including avyon, Oberlin or OWU, with a toGRAND TOTAL $3,777,863 $4,712,267 $2,024,078 $3,652,777 erage coach salaries. The 2013-14 retal budget of $4,712,467. However, EXPENSES port is the most recent report, with $3,161,615 of that total was spent on GRAPHIC BY ROSE BISHOP | COLLEGIAN the 2014-15 report yet to be released. specific teams, a number similar to During the 2013-14 academic how much Kenyon spent. Denison year, Kenyon spent a total of $3,777,863 on allowed exception to this rule is lacrosse. Men’s places equal importance on all the College’s also spent $363,000 on its football team, or 11.5 athletics, with $2,623,338 of that sum spent on lacrosse allows checking or fouling more than athletes. “As I tell the coaches, an outfielder in percent of the total team budget, and $382,500 , specific teams. The remaining $1,154,525 was women’s lacrosse does and therefore requires softball is just as important to us as the quarter12 percent, on its two basketball teams. spent on expenses such as maintenance of the additional pads and gear, which contribute to back in football,” Smith said. “We aren’t Divi“When you take a look at our numbers Kenyon Athletic Center (KAC). men’s lacrosse requiring more funding. sion I.” compared to those of some other schools, I In terms of how funds are distributed In 2013-14, Kenyon spent more money on OWU, on the other hand, spent nearly think you can see how we’re more efficient with among sports, a few rules are in place to ensure its football and basketball teams than it did $3,050,748 on its teams and $3,652,777 overall how we divide our budgets among sports,” gender equality. Title IX, a section of federal on its other varsity programs. Two years ago, on athletics. While OWU spent about $400,000 Smith said. law that bans sex discrimination in education, Kenyon spent $343,102 on the football team more in total than Kenyon did on its teams, Kenyon spent a smaller percentage of its requires that sports like basketball and soccer, alone. That cost made up 13 percent of the total OWU also spent more than $200,000 more on budget on football than Oberlin or OWU. which have both a men’s team and women’s expenses the College spent on specific teams. its football team. OWU’s football team made Though football is the largest of Kenyon’s team, receive equal or near-equal funds.

Comparatively, Kenyon spent $330,956 total on up nearly 19 percent of OWU’s total team budteams, it takes up a percentage of the Kenyon For example, in 2013-14, Kenyon spent both basketball teams. get, compared to Kenyon’s 13 percent. budget proportionate to the team’s size com$174,392 on the men’s basketball team and Despite this, Athletic Director Peter Smith While OWU spends more on its football pared to the overall student-athlete population $156,564 on the women’s basketball team. The takes pride in how the athletics department team, it spends $22,000 less on its basketball at Kenyon.

NOAH NASH SPORTS EDITOR

In comparison to three of its fellow D-III Ohio schools, Kenyon shows a combination of budget balance among its many athletic teams and budget size.